Photographs by Earl H. Morris
POSING WITH HIS TROPHIES
In jovial mood, Owens, whom the author describes as "the best digger
in all the Southwest," dons as a hat a basket which for a few centuries
lay over the head of a mummy, and holds before him a sheaf of three
huge oaken blades which he found beneath a cliff-house floor.
AN EXCAVATOR WEARING
AGAS
MASK
IN
MUMMY
CAVE
A gray pall always hangs
above
the
pits
where
the
workmen
search
for
treasures of the past. Thefine
dust,
blended
ofashand
filth
and
human
waste, will exact its tollifnot
excluded
from
the
lungs.
Hence
one
labors for breath behind amask
ofwet
cloth
orsponges.